Victoria Bitter

Brewed by Carlton & United Breweries (CUB)
Style: Pale Lager
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

For $2.50 a middy at newport there isn’t much else to drink. Unless you wanna pay $8 for crown, which is worse than this anyway

Bottle at home. Pale golden pour, almost no head. Does not look to promising. Aroma of hay, grains and sour apple juice. Yuck. Flavor is somewhat bitter, slightly fruity but mostly boring watery grain juice. Should I have expected otherwise?

So, in the fine tradition of being a schemie (6 cans for $9.99) I thought I’d try the VB’s for an old school treat. I remember drinking these twenty years ago. Yikes. Anyway - straw colour in the glass, nothing too exciting. Fine off-white head that dissolved into a fine mesh pretty quickly. Wet cardboard on the nose, some lemon detergent hiding in the background. Tastes some corn and sweetness. Light bodied, fairly thin. Nasty sort of after taste. Not a great trip back down memory lane, but on a hot day might be able to chug one down

Pale, clear body with a tiny, fizzy, fully diminishing white head. Unpleasant sweet aroma of corn and other vegetables. Malty sweet taste with a very light bitter finish, hardly any aftertaste. Flavour of sugary cornflakes. Lively carbonation. Not good.
[37.5 cl bottle, from ICA, Hasle, Oslo]

33cl bottle. Pours golden with some bubbles and a little head which mostly disappears quickly. The nose is sweet and fruity, maybe malt and even mango or guava, The taste has more sweetness a bit fruity and maybe a bit like sweetcorn. Then it’s watery. The palate begins promising but the finish appears quickly and it is not refreshing at all. Overall, not as bad as people say but not worth revisiting.

this beer has a horrible reputation but i actually appreciate it. It has good flavour, nice appearance and a nice finish. Will i try and convert people to drink it or brag about its greatness, no. But still worth a tasting

500 mL can purchased from the LCBO in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. I wonder how long it takes to ship this beer from Australia to Canada? 6 weeks from brewery to liquor store shelf? Pours a clear gold with a white billowy head. Aroma of dusty basement. Slightly bitter malt on the tongue with a nondescript finish. Very ordinary. Been there done that kind of beer, probably won’t buy again.

Ein wenig alkoholisch, sehr muffig und wie von gerresheimer beschrieden heuartig schmeckt das Zeug. Auch chemisch kommt das Bier rüber, der Nachgeschmack ist sehr trocken.. Bei 0° schmeckts bestimmt besser, aber unter normalen Bedingungen bestimmt nicht. Test vom 29.1.2006, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 4,6,5,6,7,6